1910.] MOTHS FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 507 



costa. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black, 

 the hair on inner margin and the cilia grey-brown. 



Hah. Congo, Katanga, Kambove (Weave), 1 § type. Exp, 

 34 mm. 



Melittia ignidiscata, sp. 11. (PI. XLI. fig. 19.) 



Head blackish mixed with white ; palpi white, black in front ; 

 sides of frons and guise white ; thorax fulvous, with some black 

 and white on tegulse and shoulders ; pectus and legs bluish white 

 mixed with black, the long hair on hind legs black with patches 

 of white and some yellow at middle of tibise and tarsi ; abdomen 

 black with patches of golden-white scales and grey-white seg- 

 mental lines, some fulvous at base, the ventral surface bluish 

 white. Fore wing hyaline yellowish towards base, the veins and 

 margins blackish with white scales mixed ; a streak of fiery-red 

 scales above vein 1 ; discoidal bar black with fiery-red patch on 

 its inner edge ; the outer edge of postmedial hyaline patch fiery 

 red. Hind wing hyaline, yellowish towards base, the veins and 

 margins narrowly black-brown ; the hair on inner margin and the 

 cilia grey-brown with a yellowish tinge. 



Ab. 1. Thorax with dark brown scales mixed ; wings not 

 yellowish towards base. 



Hah. Br. C. Africa, Blantyre (Byrn), 3 d, 1 S 5 N.E. 

 Rhodesia, Serenji distr. (Weave), 1 d type ; S. Rhodesia, Bula- 

 wayo (Marshall), 1 J , 1 $ . Exp. 34 mm. 



Hepialidj.' 



Gorgopis libania Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 128, pi. 356. f. 6 

 (1782). 



Portuguese E. Africa, S. Angoniland. 



Dalaca stictigrapha, sp. n. (PI. XLI. fig. 13.) 



$ . Head and thorax fuscous brown with a greyish tinge ; 

 antennae fulvous ; abdomen greyish ochreous mixed with brown. 

 Fore wing fuscous brown irrorated with white scales except on 

 costal area ; traces of a sinuous dark antemedial line ; an in- 

 distinct obliquely curved waved dark line defined on outer side by 

 white scales from upper angle of cell to inner margin at the ante- 

 medial line, the area beyond it more thickly irrorated witli white ; 

 an obliquely curved series of small blackish spots defined by white 

 scales from below apex to inner margin ; a terminal series of 

 blackish points defined by white scales. Hind wing grey-brown, 

 the basal area ochreous. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey-brown ; fore wing 

 with the markings more obscure. 



Hah. Congo, S.E. Katanga (Weave), 1 $ ; N.E. Rhodesia, 

 Serenji distr. (Weave), 4 $ type, Petauke distr. (Weave), 2 d . 

 Exp. 38-44 mm. 



